February 4, 2016
Escobedo Solíz Studio
Modular and Open to the Neighborhood MoMA PS1’s latest winner, Escobedo Solíz Studio, designed this Duplex in Mexico City’s La Condesa neighborhood. Built of 3-meter by 3-meter modules, each module getting a different function, the bottom duplex is occupied by an architect, the top by a filmmaker. [ARCHITECT]
A Small City The interiors of the Hisham A. Alsager Cardiac Center by AGi Architects is organized like a small city with different scales and hierarchies, according to the architects. [ARCHITECT]
Ed Reeve, courtesy Adjaye Associates
David Adjaye.
New Class of Residents Architects David Adjaye, HON. FAIA, Jeanne Gang, FAIA, and Craig Hartman, FAIA, are among the newest class of residents for the American Academy in Rome. [ARCHITECT]
Sergio Grazia
Wood Works These nine projects won at the 2016 WoodWorks Wood Design Awards, a competition that celebrates the use of wood in structural and finish applications in commercial and multifamily buildings. [ARCHITECT]
Warren Jagger
Thayer’s Center for the Arts (left) and Frothingham Hall
The Campus as Petting Zoo At a time when universities all seem to be lining up to hire the biggest starchitects in the world to design unique sculptural buildings for their campuses, Witold Rybczynski, HON. FAIA, reminds us of Thayer University, and the benefits of architectural consistency. [ARCHITECT]
Awards and Competitions
The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is now accepting submissions to its fourth Wheelwright Prize, an open, international competition for early-career architects that supports travel-based research. The deadline for submissions is Feb. 15, 2016. Read more about the Wheelwright Prize.
The Architectural League has announced a call for entries for its Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers, focused this year around the theme of (im)permanence and time as a defining characteristic of architecture. Entries are due Feb. 17, 2016.
The Buckminster Fuller Challenge recognizes initiatives that take a comprehensive and anticipatory design approach to advance human well-being and the health of the planet’s ecosystem. The Buckminster Fuller Institute awards one $100,000 prize to support the development and implementation of a design solution that addresses complex global problems. The application window will open on Jan. 15 and entries are due by March 1.
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